An infectious diseases surveillance system created by University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists and deployed at a UPMC hospital successfully flagged cases of a drug-resistant infection spread by eye drops months before national public health officials announced an outbreak.
, were obtained through a hospital-based program called Enhanced Detection System for Healthcare-Associated Transmission . They demonstrate the potential of this technology to detect and stop nationwide outbreaks sooner.surveillance," said senior author Daria Van Tyne, Ph.D., assistant professor in Pitt Medicine's Division of Infectious Diseases.
On February 1, 2023, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an advisory warning of an outbreak of a drug resistant strain of the bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa that was linked to use of artificial tears. Dozens of cases in 13 states had been found, with at least one death and multiple cases of permanent vision loss. In April 2023, CDC released the genetic code for the outbreak strain.
In October 2022, UPMC detected two cases of the drug-resistant infection through EDS-HAT. This pointed to an outbreak, so hospital infection preventionists investigated, but no commonality could be found between the patients—they hadn't interacted with each other, didn't have the same clinicians, didn't stay in the same rooms and no common
After confirming that UPMC had seen cases of P. aeruginosa months before the national alert, Sundermann and Van Tyne took their research a step further, obtaining all the available sequences of P. aeruginosa that had now been shared. This allowed them to build a"" and trace the bacterium's origins to samples collected in 2013 and 2018 from India and Nigeria, but not seen in U.S. samples before 2022.
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